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Background Agents are a new feature in Windows Phone 7.5, that a developer can use to empower their application to run code in the 'background' regardless of whether or not the application is running.

This is a radical development. Applications on Windows Phone can now deliver experiences that can dynamically perform operations in the background. There are a wide variety of scenarios that this can enable, from driving a live tile locally on the phone, to periodically updating a server application with location information, to periodically downloading new content from a web service in the background.

In this video, Alex shows you how to modify an existing application to take advantage of this exciting new feature.

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